Gremlins
Gremlins - Movie Trailer
1984 | PG | 106 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | DCP
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Featuring an Introduction by Writer and Film Critic Frank Falisi.
“The central ask of Gremlins: can the bespoke Hollywood object possess anything like a conscience,” posits Film Writer Frank Falisi. “Based on a script by industry cutthroat/sentimentalist Chris Columbus and guarded from total defanging by Executive Producer Steven Spielberg in goblin mode, Gremlins spins a fable according to three rules filmgoers of a certain age can recite from memory: no bright lights, no water, no food after midnight. A perhaps-unlikely boffo object in its time, Gremlins locates its totalizing anarchy in the soft and sublime touch of director Joe Dante. In spinning a yarn of B movie monsters terrorizing a Capra-by-way-of-Chuck Jones backlot over one long Christmas Eve, Dante argues that art can only subvert through actually transforming commodity into anarchy. It’s a pop mutation that edits the forces that seek to pacify a public in that most liberating and looniest tune: bad taste on the big screen, and all its clarifying pleasure”
About Frank Falisi:
Frank Falisi is a writer from New Jersey whose work has appeared in Bright Wall/Dark Room, Reverse Shot, Los Angeles Review of Books, and MUBI Notebook, among other outlets. He currently lives in Brooklyn, NYC, where he teaches high school English Language Arts.
Director: Joe Dante
Writers: Chris Columbus
Stars: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, Hoyt Axton